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industrial network
CISOs say OT will survive a cyberattack, but their engineers aren’t so sure

Ask industrial security chiefs whether their plants would keep running through a full IT compromise, and every one who answered the SANS 2026 ICS/OT survey says yes. …

bots
Bots pose as AI agents, AI agents pose as humans, and defenses believe both

Over one week in October, an online marketplace took 414,210 visits from traffic wearing the name of a widely used consumer AI agent. Every visit went for the sign-in page, …

EU
EU cyber scores look healthy, but 45% of surveyed IT providers take months to patch

Forty-five percent of surveyed IT service management providers in the EU took more than three months to apply critical patches to critical systems, according to ENISA’s 2026 …

broken
Nearly half of big firms shelve or close vulnerability findings they haven’t confirmed

Nearly half of security teams at organizations with 5,000 or more employees close or deprioritize vulnerability findings without fully verifying them, ProjectDiscovery found, …

Android, iPhone
An Instagram ad was all it took: Leaked exploit kits are hitting employees’ iPhones

Criminals are using leaked exploit kits to break into vulnerable iPhones, according to iVerify’s 2026 Advanced Mobile Threat Report. Attacks delivered through ads and …

biometrics
Security teams want to spot unusual AI agent behavior while they’re still defining normal

AI agents topped the list of planned investments in behavioral monitoring in Abnormal AI’s 2026 State of Behavioral Security Report. Asked where their organizations would …

Agentic AI
Over 575 malicious OpenClaw skills delivered malware to Windows and macOS

Cybercriminals are using AI agents to coordinate attacks, stolen credentials to access linked services, and tools that interfere with intrusion detection and system recovery, …

work
Companies seeking an MSP doubt their ability to spot cyberattacks

Businesses looking to outsource cybersecurity want providers that can help them recover from attacks, manage AI risks, and explain what security problems mean for their …

attack
An average of 8 minutes is all hackers need to log in with stolen credentials

Attackers used stolen credentials to log in an average of eight minutes after infection across 27 confirmed infostealer cases, according to a report from Elastic Security …

AI
99% of repository access tokens never expire

Developers, automated tools and AI coding agents hold permissions that can outlast the work they were granted for. Without access reviews, organizations can leave accounts …

healthcare
Healthcare can’t govern the AI tools it hasn’t found yet

Nearly nine in ten healthcare leaders say security or compliance staff always or usually review AI-written code that touches patient data before it goes live, and seven in ten …

shadow AI
Companies are spending more on AI governance and getting less control

Companies are increasing their cybersecurity budgets, with AI security and governance the top priority for additional spending, followed by cloud security, according to …

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